Quotes About Progress

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though live ideas are born out of it. Worms, also, feed upon corpses.

The mad scientist was once only a creature of gothic romance; now he is everywhere, busy torturing atoms and animals in his laboratory.

The microwave oven is the consolation prize in our struggle to understand physics.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

autumn strolls, winter slithers spring skips, summer swims

If spring betrays summer, would autumn never arrive?

Seasons depart peripherally.

We're all on different paths, but action is hard work and you must drive your own soul.

September is more than a month, really; it is a season, an achievement in itself. It begins with August's leftovers and it ends with October's preparations...

I'd like to meet the man who invented sex and see what he's working on now.

It's only a matter of inches, but skipping gets us just that much closer to heaven.

You may never get rid of the butterflies, but you can teach them how to fly in formation.

Fitness is a curve. You can be Lance Armstrong, or you can be really out of shape at the opposite end. People enter the curve wherever they are and then they can move up the curve, by better nutrition and better exercise.

I'm not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don't. Move on and move out.

He was not a very careful person as a mathematician. He made a lot of mistakes. But he made mistakes in a good direction. I tried to imitate him. But I've realized that it's very difficult to make good mistakes.

If you dont like life, move! Your not a tree!

Diamonds may have been a girl's best friend in an era when a woman's only hope of having a high family income was to marry a man who was well-off, but today, marketable skills that will enable a woman to command a good income over her lifetime are a better investment.

The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way."

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after

History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically or dialectally - has a lot to do with whether we cut short or advance our evolution as human beings.

activism can be the journey rather than the arrival;

I am often asked what keeps me going after all these years. I think it is the realization that there is no final struggle. Whether you win or lose, each struggle brings forth new contradictions, new and more challenging questions. As Alice Walker put it in one of my favorite poems: I must love the questions themselves as Rilke said like locked rooms full of treasures to which my blind and groping key does not yet fit.1

If we want to see change in our lives, we have to change things ourselves.